Overview
- Offers a new conceptual framework to understand human rights in their changing political dimension
- Documents key case studies/contexts in which human rights are expressed in terms of political battlefields
- Examines the ambivalence and limitations of such theoretical/conceptual apparatus
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices. The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimize the changing nature of human rights as well as the struggles emerging from the use of human rights discourses as a legitimization tool. By shifting the focus on what stakeholders do instead of solely on the origin, nature or foundations of human rights, the authors reveal that human rights are not static objects: they are constantly transformed and, as such, affect the horizon of universal rights.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates
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Overcoming the Frontiers of Discrimination and Structural Violence: Intersectional Struggles of Human Rights from Below and Transformations of Political Space
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Social Contestation and the Broadening of Human Rights’ Meanings
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gabriel Blouin-Genest is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.
Marie-Christine Doran is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Sylvie Paquerot is Associate Professor of Political and Legal Studies at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Marie-Christine Doran is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Sylvie Paquerot is Associate Professor of Political and Legal Studies at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights as Battlefields
Book Subtitle: Changing Practices and Contestations
Editors: Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91770-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91769-6Published: 03 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06294-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91770-2Published: 20 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 288
Topics: Development and Social Change, Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Conflict Studies, Public Policy